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Metropolitan Opera Announces 2024 Summer Recital Series

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced its 2024 Summer Recital Series. The series will celebrate its 15th anniversary and will open on June 18. This year there will be five free outdoor recitals throughout New York City presented in collaboration with Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage. The first concert will take place at SummerStage in Central Park in Manhattan and {…}

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Miami Lyric Opera to Shut Down after 22 Years

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The Miami Lyric Opera is shuttering its doors. Founder and long-time General and Artistic Director of MLO Raffaele Cardone has announced that he is closing the company after 22 years. In a statement, Cardone said, “The principal reason is financing—not enough being available to make a decent production. Venue, labor, musicians and artist costs and others, have all increased.” He {…}

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Angela Meade & Ailyn Pérez Lead Washington Concert Opera’s 2023-24 Season

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The Washington Concert Opera has announced its 2023-24 season. The company will present two rarely performed works from the Italian repertoire. Rossini’s “Ermione” is set to star Angela Meade, Lawrence Brownlee, David Portillo, and Ginger Costa-Jackson. Performance Date: Dec. 2, 2023 Ailyn Pérez, Mario Chang, Jonathan Johnson, Deanna Breiwick, Javier Arrey, Tess Ottinger, Natalie Conte, and Melanie Ashkar star in {…}

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Juliana Grigoryan Wins Hildegard Behrens Prize

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The Hildegard Behrens Foundation has announced that the 14th annual Hildegard Behrens Prize was awarded to Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Program soprano Juliana Grigoryan. Grigoryan is in her first year of the program and received the prize at a ceremony in the Metropolitan Opera Grand Tier on February 9th, 2024, in celebration of the 87th anniversary of Behrens’ birthday. In {…}

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Niamh O’Sullivan, Dean Power, Rory Dunne, & Kelli-Ann Masterson Star in Cork Opera House Production of ‘La tragédie de Carmen’

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The Cork Opera House puts on Bizet’s “La tragédie de Carmen” on Feb. 14 for one night only. In the title role is mezzo-soprano Niamh O’Sullivan. She is joined by tenor Dean Power as Don José, bass-baritone Rory Dunne as Escamillo, and soprano Kelli-Ann Masterson as Micaëla. The performers will be accompanied on the evening by an ensemble of 15 {…}

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Best of 2023: OperaWire’s Staff on the Best Performances of the Year

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And we’re back. And as has become the tradition here at OperaWire, we have asked our writers to select their choices for the opera performances that truly marveled them in 2023. So without further ado, here are our writers’ picks. Enjoy! Joao Copertino This year, in my opinion, the best performance was Aix-en-Provence’s “Picture a Day Like This,” a world premiere {…}

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Metropolitan Opera 2023-24 Review: Florencia en el Amazonas

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The Spanish language is pretty preponderant in the United States of America with a recent census stating that over 42 million people in the country aged five and older speak the language at home. It’s the second most learned language following English, with over 8 million students. And yet, it took until 2023 for the Metropolitan Opera to finally, and {…}

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‘Florencia en el Amazonas’ to Make HD Debut at the Metropolitan Opera

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The Metropolitan Opera’s 2023–24 Live in HD season will continue with Daniel Catán’s “Florencia en el Amazonas.” The opera will be performed on Dec. 9 and will be the first Spanish-language opera to be featured on the company’s HD series. Mexican-American soprano Ailyn Pérez leads the cast alongside soprano Gabriella Reyes, bass-baritone Greer Grimsley, baritone Mattia Olivieri, tenor Mario Chang, {…}

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Music of the Americas to Celebrate ‘Florencia en el Amazonas’

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(Image: Jennifer Taylor / Met Opera) Music of the Americas is set to celebrate Daniel Catán’s “Florencia en el Amazonas” on Nov. 28, 2023 at Americas Society in New York. The evening, which kicks off at 7 p.m. local time, will feature a conversation with João MacDowell, the artistic director of the International Brazilian Opera Company, followed by performances by {…}